Re: Lost user database after bungled upgrade

From: Ian Lepore <ian_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2019 16:40:32 -0600
On Wed, 2019-08-28 at 18:09 -0400, Ryan Stone wrote:
> Thanks for the hint; I wasn't aware of /var/backups.  Unfortunately
> fixing my user database at this point hasn't fixed pkg.  I'm worried
> that it has some bad data cached somewhere now. I tried restoring the
> pkg databack from /var/backups but that hasn't helped.
> 
> 

PR 223751 suggests that perhaps the assert is a side effect of another
problem such as a missing file, and fixing that may eliminate the
assert.

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=223751

Or maybe in your case the files are fine and it really is a uid
problem.  But a "pkg check -s -a" as suggested in the PR couldn't hurt.
:)

-- Ian

> On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 5:20 PM Gary Palmer <gpalmer_at_freebsd.org>
> wrote:
> > 
> > On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 05:09:35PM -0400, Ryan Stone wrote:
> > > Hi everybody,
> > > 
> > > I lost /etc/master.passwd and friends while trying to recover
> > > from an
> > > src upgrade gone wrong.  I'm trying to run "pkg upgrade -f" to
> > > get all
> > > of the users and groups created by packages recreating, but pkg
> > > is
> > > hitting an assert related to uids:
> > > 
> > > Checking integrity...Assertion failed: (strcmp(uid, p->uid) !=
> > > 0),
> > > function pkg_conflicts_check_local_path, file
> > > pkg_jobs_conflicts.c,
> > > line 386.
> > > 
> > > Is there any way to get past this, or is the system toast?
> > 
> > Did you try restoring from the backups under /var/backups?  There
> > should
> > be master.passwd in there which can be restored and /etc/passwd and
> > the DB files regenarated with pwd_mkdb (I think, never tried)
> > 
> > Regards,
> > 
> > Gary
> 
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